China

Sealed behind the steel doors of two bunkers in a Beijing suburb, university students are trying to find out how it feels to live in a space station on another planet, recycling everything from plant cuttings to urine.

Archaeologists from Inner Mongolia University and the Inner Mongolia Museum have published the results of their study of a rare find: a 1500-year-old tomb full of artifacts, complete with an intact mummy.

Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eastern Eurasia.